[CentOS] unable to write files bigger than 4GB over NFS
Joshua Baker-LePain
jlb17 at duke.edu
Wed Jun 28 12:46:07 UTC 2006
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 at 9:19am, Joseph Haig wrote
> Tony Schreiner wrote:
>
>> Since the replacement, when I try to write a big file from the 32bit
>> CentOS boxes over NFS to the server, I get "filesize exceed messages" at
>> 2GB. However this used to work with the old server. And I can write big
>> files if I'm logged on to the server.
>>
> I belive that the maximum file size for an NFS partition is 2G, so I am
I think that may have been the case with NFSv2, but it's definitely not
with NFSv3 or v4.
>> One more oddity, the shared file system on the server is xfs formatted;
>> if I instead mount a reiserfs file system I can successfully write. This
>> part does not make sense to me.
>>
> Maybe the limit doesn't come from just NFS but a combination of NFS and the
> filesystem.
Until last week, I was running a RH7.3(!) based NFS server with XFS and
regularly using large files.
To the OP, make sure you're using NFSv3 (at least).
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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